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Thursday 2 May 2013

Cycling: Tour of Britain in Devon

Devon Tour of Britain stage to start in Sidmouth


The Tour of Britain cyclists and their support teams rode right through Sidmouth on Tuesday and are pictured heading along the seafront.
Photo by Simon Horn. Ref shsp 1535-37-10SH
The Tour of Britain cyclists and their support teams rode right through Sidmouth on Tuesday [19th March] and are pictured heading along the seafront. Picture by Simon Horn.

 Friday, March 22, 2013 

SIDMOUTH will be part of cycling history when it hosts the start of Devon’s stage of this year’s Tour of Britain.
Devon County Council has today revealed the good news following the national launch of the tour - celebrating its 10th anniversary this year – in Covent Garden last night (Thursday).
Residents have been urged to pull together and put on a party atmosphere to make the event, which pulls in a worldwide audience, the ‘best ever’ on Friday, September 20.

Devon Tour of Britain stage to start in Sidmouth - News - Sidmouth Herald


2013 Tour of Britain stage six - Sidmouth to Haytor, Dartmoor

2013 Tour of Britain

Stage six - Friday 20 September
Sidmouth to Haytor, Dartmoor 137km

2013 Tour of Britain route stage six

Devon raises the bar (and finish line) for The Tour of Britain's 10th edition Devon will make history as the first stage of The Tour of Britain to host a summit finish when the race returns to the county in September to celebrate its 10th anniversary.





SIDMOUTH: Tour of Britain cycle stage to start in town
27th March 2013
AN EAST Devon councillor has welcomed news that one of the stages in this year’s Tour of Britain cycle race is to start in the district.
Councillor Iain Chubb, EDDC’s Cabinet Member for Environment, said: “It’s fantastic news that Stage Six of September’s race will be starting in Sidmouth on the Jurassic coastline and passing through Honiton on its way to a finish on Dartmoor. 
“This will give the people of East Devon and our visitors a fantastic spectacle to enjoy as world-class riders bring the colour and the excitement of international cycling to one of our coastal resorts and also to one of our market towns”. 
SIDMOUTH: Tour of Britain cycle stage to start in townDELIGHTED - Councillor Stuart Hughes and Tour of Britain race director Mick Bennett at the tour launch in London






SIDMOUTH BRITISH BIKE RACE No1 - YouTube


Tour of Britain route features longer time trial and hill-top finish
• Stages take in Lake District, Snowdonia and Dartmoor
• British Cycling puts next year's event up for tender

William Fotheringham The Guardian, Thursday 21 March 2013 

Ten years after the Tour of Britain was relaunched it has confirmed its most varied, demanding and ambitious route, with two firsts for 2013: a substantial time trial, in Bradley Wiggins's adopted home county of Lancashire, and a seriously tough hill‑top finish at Haytor on Dartmoor, not far from the home of last year's winner Jonathan Tiernan-Locke.
The big innovation, however, is the finish at Haytor, in the heart of the Dartmoor national park, at the end of a relatively short stage from Sidmouth. Devon has become a fixture on the British Tour, and the 1,499ft high summit is one of the iconic British climbs, a venue for the national hill-climb time-trial championship in the past and part of the Tour of Britain route in 2011.




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